Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.85.27-28
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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devakī
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Devakī (Kṛṣṇa's mother)
The seventh consort of Vasudeva in this birth, but cosmologically named in SB 10.3 as Aditi reborn. Devakī's vātsalya is the rasa-counterpart of Yaśodā's — the mādhurya of one who could not raise her son, but who is the mother He honors.
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kṛṣṇa-rāmau
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Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma
Dual compound. Devakī addresses both — but it is Kṛṣṇa who will answer. The two brothers are the constant pair of Kaṁsa-līlā and the rescue-līlās that follow.
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kaṁsa-vihiṁsitān
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killed by Kaṁsa
Compound: kaṁsa + vihiṁsita (slain, dashed). The reference is to SB 10.1 — the six prior sons Kaṁsa killed on the prison-floor before Kṛṣṇa's birth. Decades have passed; the wound is still fresh.
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vaiklavyāt
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out of agitation, distress
Ablative abstract: vaiklavya = 'state of being shaken'. Devakī's calm is broken by the memory. Gauḍīyas note that vātsalya is so deep that it can be re-opened decades later by a single triggering event.
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aśru-locanā
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with tear-filled eyes
Compound: aśru (tear) + locanā (eyed-one, feminine). The verse closes with the visible sign of mother's love. Devakī's tears do work in the world — they bring Kṛṣṇa to Sutala.
Vasudeva’s love for Kṛṣṇa had been disturbed because his awareness of Kṛṣṇa’s opulences conflicted with seeing Him as his son. In a different way, Devakī’s love was somewhat distracted by her lamentation for her dead sons. So Kṛṣṇa arranged to relieve her of the mistaken idea that anyone else but Him was actually her son. Since Devakī is known to be worshiped by all great souls, her show of maternal affection must actually have been an effect of the Lord’s Yoga-māyā, who increases the pleasure of His pastimes. Thus in text 54 Devakī will be described as mohitā māyayā viṣṇoḥ, “bewildered by the internal energy of Lord Viṣṇu.”
Having eliminated his father’s knowledge of the Lord’s greatness which was contrary to seeing the Lord as his son, Kṛṣṇa did not satisfy his mother’s longing for her sons. This related story is now told. Having heard that her two sons had brought back the son of their guru from death, she remained in complete astonishment. After a special realization through the conversation of Kṛṣṇa with Vasudeva, in order to obtain her desires, she spoke. Balarāma is also called ātma-ja, coming from her womb, since she heard that he was taken from her womb and implanted in Rohiṇī’s womb. Devakī is called the devatā (performer of pastimes) for all beings since she was the form of śuddha-sattva wealth of śuddha-sattva pastimes as the mother of the Lord. Therefore her present action (which appears material) is for joyful pastimes of the Lord, arranged by the līlā-śakti of the lord. Later it will be said mohitā māyayā viṣṇoḥ: she was bewildered by the Lord’s yoga-māyā. (SB 10.85.54)
Having satisfied his father, he then satisfied his mother. The verse begins by related a previous incident. After Vasudeva fell silent (atha), Devakī, who was there, worshipable by the devatās, since she was the mother of the Lord, and who ahd heard previously of the son of the guru brought back from the kingdom of death by her two sons with great astonishment, spoke. She thought of them as her sons, not as the Lords, and thus was astonished at their feat. She accepted Balarāma as her son since the father was Vasudeva (Rohiṇī was the mother), or because Balarāma had first been in her womb. Addressing Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, she spoke. Or telling the two about her sons killed by Kaṁṣa and remembering them, thinking “What is their destination?” she spoke. She had tears in her eyes because of affection for her sons. She spoke humbly (kṛpanam), with affection and praises (pra). Kṛṣṇa is mentioned first because of greater affection for him, or because he was the main person to hear. Or Śukadeva had special affection for Kṛṣṇa.
Hearing of one son brought back from death awakens in Devakī the memory of six sons she never finished mourning. Like a sealed well disturbed by a single stone, her old grief rises — and she places the lifted stone in the very hands that could lift it.
My note
Source: vedabase.io